{"id":8422,"date":"2009-11-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/05\/european-court-of-human-rights-rules-against-crucifixes-in-italian-schools\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T12:00:00","slug":"european-court-of-human-rights-rules-against-crucifixes-in-italian-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/11\/05\/european-court-of-human-rights-rules-against-crucifixes-in-italian-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"European Court of Human Rights Rules Against Crucifixes in Italian Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/8340411.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>STRASBOURG, GERMANY, November 6, 2009: In a case brought by an Italian mother who wanted to give her children a secular education, The European Court of Human Rights has ruled against the use of crucifixes in Italian classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The Vatican said it was shocked by the ruling, calling it &#8220;wrong and myopic&#8221; to exclude the crucifix from education, and the ruling has sparked anger in the largely Catholic country. The Strasbourg court found that, &#8220;The compulsory display of a symbol of a given confession in premises used by the public authorities&#8230; restricted the right of parents to educate their children in conformity with their convictions.&#8221; It also restricted the &#8220;right of children to believe or not to believe&#8221;, the seven judges ruling on the case said.<\/p>\n<p>Although a revised accord between the Vatican and the Italian government ended Catholicism&#8217;s position as the state religion in 1984, the crucifix law has never been repealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk STRASBOURG, GERMANY, November 6, 2009: In a case brought by an Italian mother who wanted to give her,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}